A display of the United States of America / Amos Doolittle. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: A display of the United States of America / Amos Doolittle., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A display of the United States of America / Amos Doolittle.
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Few early American prints bring together a national portrait and the emblems of the states as this one does. Washington appears at the center, ringed by the state seals, a format that presents the young republic as a union of separate states under one leader. New Haven engraver Amos Doolittle printed and sold it in March 1794, when Washington was still in office and the nation was only a few years into its federal government. Doolittle, who had trained as an engraver of maps and political subjects, colored the impression by hand, which was a common finishing step for prints of this kind and period.
| Created / published | New Haven : Printed & Sold by A. Doolittle, 1794 Marh. 1st. |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1790-1800.Engravings Hand-colored 1790-1800. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1996:086). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1999. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799. State seals--1790-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,312 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220276 |
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